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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 26-12-2017, 14:39
Replies: 222
Views: 33,676
Posted By Steve1944
Re: What is "Hull Speed" Anyway

Hull speed is like horsepower. Make of it as is your sophistication of it.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 25-12-2017, 20:21
Replies: 222
Views: 33,676
Posted By Steve1944
Re: What is "Hull Speed" Anyway

Polux: i have no personal blog
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 25-12-2017, 20:12
Replies: 222
Views: 33,676
Posted By Steve1944
Re: What is "Hull Speed" Anyway

Hull speed is the calculation of maximum speed of the hull of a boat through water. A mariner can improve or have that speed diminished by effects like tide and winds. It’s often confused with the...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 25-12-2017, 16:53
Replies: 222
Views: 33,676
Posted By Steve1944
Re: What is "Hull Speed" Anyway

There are many factors to come I to play to add to or detract from the hull speed of a boat. Some are controlled by the mariner, and some factors control the mariner.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 30-11-2017, 20:05
Replies: 110
Views: 16,270
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Would YOU buy this boat?

I can’t tell from the info given. What kind of boat ? Design, rigging, material. Know this: no insurance company will insure a thirty year old boat.
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 05-11-2017, 19:29
Replies: 17
Views: 3,340
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Oven next to fridge?

Usually the sink is between the oven and the fridge.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-07-2016, 03:21
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch sailing for beginners

Mule sail. Yeah, the staysail between the main and the mizzen.


Ingomar
34 foot cutter modified ketch
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-07-2016, 03:15
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch Sailing for Beginners

How do I add a picture of my ketch to my ID?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-07-2016, 03:13
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch Sailing for Beginners

Yes. The halyard with two shackles is for the m/m staysail. One shackle for starboard tac and the other for port tac. Clever.


Yes again. The dead eye is for the trimatic stay with the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-07-2016, 02:45
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch Sailing for Beginners

Yes. That's it.


I connected, during this busy season, with the local rigger. The puzzle was the triadic stay, there is a hemp line with two shanks that is the double halyard for the main/mizzen...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 20-06-2016, 04:02
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch Sailing for Beginners

First, I discovered I have reel type winches and the ends of those main and mizzen main halyards thread into them. Problem solved, except no winches; so I'm seeking flat end winches 4 cm X 10 inches....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 17-06-2016, 16:20
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch Sailing for Beginners

There is no right way or only way. You do what leaves no loose ends.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 17-06-2016, 16:18
Replies: 46
Views: 51,044
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Ketch Sailing for Beginners

I'm Righing
My new to me ketch and have two cable halyards with no hardware on two living ends. What do these tie onto? Do the topping lifts have no hardware for some reason?
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 31-01-2016, 09:51
Replies: 240
Views: 69,234
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Is Coppercoat anti foul worth it?

Three times as expensive for five times the endurance.


You do the math.
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 25-01-2016, 08:45
Replies: 22
Views: 3,699
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Bottom paint during survey

I was painting my hull when the surveyor did his job.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 25-01-2016, 08:42
Replies: 96
Views: 10,381
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Need opinions on this boat

Don't fix the mast until it breaks. Tap the wood and the sound will tell the whole story.


It's not a cutter, it's a yawl. I'm suspicious when a boat is mid represented in any way. What else is...
Forum: Crew Archives 20-01-2016, 14:43
Replies: 23
Views: 7,212
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Single White Female seeking ADVENTURE

If you can meet us in the Canary Islands by March first, contact off CF.
Forum: Navigation 15-01-2016, 12:01
Replies: 60
Views: 6,149
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Need help from USN Small Boat Vet

Moth to the flame. How close can we go?
Forum: Navigation 15-01-2016, 12:00
Replies: 60
Views: 6,149
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Need help from USN Small Boat Vet

They call it GRO ground research operation.
Forum: Navigation 14-01-2016, 13:27
Replies: 80
Views: 11,734
Posted By Steve1944
Re: What happens when your navigation systems fails

Gee! Do you possibly think those US Sailors lied?
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 05-01-2016, 10:29
Replies: 23
Views: 10,762
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Alado Furler for extensive Blue Water Cruising?

I may have posted on this thread before, so this is in addition


I am against furlers and lost both my furler and forestay on the North Sea. I didn't replace it. I'm happy b
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-01-2016, 10:20
Replies: 30
Views: 9,320
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Buy a "new" old boat or an "old" old boat??

These Help Me Buy A Boat posts are just plain stupid.


What do I know of what you like?


For that money there's a fantastic buy in the wooden boat of Carlotta. She's the first of the...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 04-01-2016, 12:37
Replies: 15
Views: 4,392
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Hot Spigot produces cold, then hot, then cold etc.

We have a problem that we think is the fresh water pump.


There is no water pressure, and the tank is full.


We turn the pump off open the valve, then turn on the pump and it runs and...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 29-12-2015, 04:37
Replies: 44
Views: 5,624
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Looking for tips to liveabord-20 years old

Sailing across the Atlantic is NOT sailing around the world.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 29-12-2015, 04:36
Replies: 44
Views: 5,624
Posted By Steve1944
Re: Looking for tips to liveabord-20 years old

You must know lots about boats to buy off Craig's list. I recommend finding a broker. My search was limited to wooden boats and I went with Wooden Ships.


One coup was that I asked if they would...
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